John Edgar Browning, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

John Edgar Browning

American writer

Date of Birth: 14-Oct-1980

Place of Birth: Nashville, Tennessee, United States

Profession: writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

John Edgar Browning (born October 14, 1980) is an American author, editor, and scholar recognized internationally for his nonfiction works about the horror genre and vampires in film, literature, and culture.
He is Professor of Liberal Arts at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta, Georgia and teaches occasionally in the graduate program in Gothic Studies at National University (California). Browning is considered an "expert on vampires specializing in the Dracula figure in film, literature, television, and popular culture." His works expound upon Dracula, horror, vampires, the supernatural, the un-dead, Bram Stoker, and gothic and cultural theory.
Browning has appeared as a vampire scholar in three documentary television series: The National Geographic Channel's Taboo USA, formerly Taboo (2002 TV series), Discovery Channel's William Shatner's Weird or What?, and the seven-part AMC documentary series Eli Roth's History of Horror. For his book Dracula in Visual Media, Browning documented over 700 "domestic and international Dracula films, television programs, documentaries, adult features, animations, and video games .
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[as well as] nearly 1000 domestic and international comic book titles and stage adaptations." For the book, Browning won the Lord Ruthven Award, an award for deserving work in vampire fiction or scholarship.
The book was also nominated for a Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award (a.k.a.
a "Rondo Award") for Book of the Year in 2011.